Pyronema sp.

A fire fungus at Belconnen, ACT

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Identification history

	Pyronema sp.	2 Apr 2016	MichaelMulvaney
	Unverified	17 Mar 2016	CathB

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A slime mould? Common on burnt soil and wood after fuel reduction burn 3 weeks previously.

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Heino wrote:

22 Mar 2016

I'd say fungal and with a good chance of being in the genus Pyronema. Species of this genus are yellow to orange and are well-known to colonize burnt areas not long after a fire. The individual fruiting bodies are small disks (often no more than a millimetre in diameter) but can be produced in such large numbers that it is very hard to see the individual disks. In this photo (https://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/images-captions/pyronema-sp-0208.html) you can see a few individual disks, but most are massed together. A rough calculation (comparing disk size with area covered by the fungus) tells me there must be at least 400 disks in the scene.

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Sighting information

16 - 100 Abundance
15 Mar 2016 08:12 AM Recorded on
CathB Recorded by
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Fungi Disk-like to cup-like Cups or disks - with no 'eggs' CathB Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Species information

Pyronema sp. Scientific name
A fire fungus Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
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